Example sentences of "go [adv] for a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The enjoyment of gross physical activity goes on for a long time , progressing to skipping and rushing-about games . |
| 2 | THE WORLD HAS stopped making sense again , and Odilo forgets everything again ( which is probably just as well ) , and the war is over now ( and it seems pretty clear to me that we lost it ) , and life goes on for a little while . |
| 3 | Meanwhile the search goes on for a scientific breakthrough . |
| 4 | ‘ It all seemed to go on for a long time , but it must have been just a few seconds . ’ |
| 5 | It seemed to go on for a long time . |
| 6 | To go on for a long time doing better and better exhibitions . |
| 7 | Colleagues , it 's approximately four twenty five , what I propose to do is to go on for a short period and to take in the resolutions on the , on your erm Maastricht erm and then we 'll have a look at the time , but I think we should be able to get those in within a , a relatively short period of time . |
| 8 | ‘ The players have to be prepared to put themselves into dangerous positions , to go in for a hard tackle , be brave and take the blows . |
| 9 | Everyone goes in for a little enhancement , one way or another . |
| 10 | This planning diary should show , for example , weeks in which certain lecture courses begin or in which certain work assignments are due for presentation ; weeks in which there are social or sporting events ; weeks in which you are free to take a break or to go away for a few days . |
| 11 | It could be that the couple simply decided to go away for a few days , but those who know Mrs Allsopp say it 's unlikely she would have left without telling anyone . |
| 12 | I 've only met kennel cough once and that was last year , when a dog belonging to a friend caught it after having been boarded out when she had to go away for a few weeks . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's been going on for a long time , but yer Mum 's bin very foolish an' so have the rest . |
| 14 | There are already many alternatives to the research carried out on animals which has been going on for a long time . |
| 15 | Here was this summer evening , their forms seemed to say , to be enjoyed by all , going on for a long time yet , with more ahead , and the fair when they felt like it , and the fireworks . |
| 16 | This world has been going on for a long time , oh god knows how many , five hundred thousand million bloody years and eventually it 's going to , it , it , it , it 's going to explode and go |
| 17 | She said it had been going on for a few months . ’ |
| 18 | It is part of a rather complicated arrangement that has been going on for a few years now . ’ |
| 19 | New Scientist published an article with the transfixing title of ‘ The search for scale invariant cosmology ’ , showing that there was a search going on for a deeper understanding of the Universe . |
| 20 | This , like the argument about human progress , suggests that the universe can have been going only for a finite time . |
| 21 | I er I think erm it 's silly not to have it er when you 're going in for a new set . |
| 22 | I am bound to say My Lords that my own view is still that the size within the limits laid down by statute with a minimum of sixteen or eighteen and maximum of twenty-four would best be determined locally and if we 're not going in for a national police force , I still ca n't see what it has to do with the Secretary of State and why the Home Office should be settling the size of forty-three or so police authorities . |
| 23 | er and therefore for that very reason do not like to see the Government going in for a whole series of embarrassing defeats er and erm getting into very grave difficulties with an important Bill and I therefore arise only to ask my Noble Friend er at the last minute would like to consider very seriously erm a conciliatory reply of whether accepting er the amendments with er or er or some of them er with er er er view to their reconsideration or asking those who propose them to defer them from to from today 's sitting , there 's still further sittings ahead , but whether he was prepared to ask them to give him a chance to reflect without incurring serious Government defeats to reflect further on whether further amendments can not and should not be made . |
| 24 | ‘ They were apparently going away for a long weekend vacation . |
| 25 | He 's probably going away for a long time , that 's why . |
| 26 | I knew she was unhappy about his going away for a whole weekend when she was too sick to accompany him . |
| 27 | I would n't mind going away for a few days , but |
| 28 | Next Sunday she was going home for a special birthday tea they were arranging for her . |
| 29 | You all thought it was great fun — going off for a hot weather holiday ! |
| 30 | If I 'm going out for a professional dinner , something formal , I will wear an evening dress . |